Current

• Permanent Fellow Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies
• Distinguished Visiting Professor of Schwarzman Scholars at Tsinghua University, China
• Senior Lecturer, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna
• Senior Lecturer, Beijing Normal University, China, IMBA Program

Previous

2014-2016:

Research Professor Economics and Evolutionary Sciences, University of Witten/Herdecke

2008-2014:

Professor of Business Economics, Academic Director of Master of International Business Program and Academic Director of East West Centre for Business Studies and Cultural Science, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management

1996-2008:

Full Professor of Evolutionary and Institutional Economics, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany

1992-1998:

Professor for Chinese Economic Studies at Mercator University of Duisburg

1988-1992:

Senior researcher, China desk, Federal Institute for Soviet and International Studies, Cologne

1979-1984:

Master of Arts. Sinology, Romance languages, Linguistics

1982-1987:

Diplom-Volkswirt. Economics. (equiv. MSc in Economics)

1984-1988:

PhD in economics. University of Cologne (summa cum laude)

1990-1996:

Volkswagen Foundation research grant on China’s modernization (together with Professor Helmut Martin, Bochum)

1996-2001:

Volkswagen Foundation research grant on business cycle research and forecasting in China (together with ifo Institute, Munich)

1997-2000:

Volkswagen Foundation grant for editing / publishing POLITEKONOM (Russian-German Quarterly of Economic Policy)

2005-2008:

Dr Werner Jackstädt Foundation grant for the establishment of the Sino-German School of Governance at Witten/Herdecke University

2009-2012:

Volkswagen Foundation research grant on business cycle research and forecasting in China (together with ifo Institute, Munich)

2010-2013:

BMBF Research Grant as a member of the university network ‘Institutions and Institutional Change in Postsocialist Countries’